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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks:
Banana .... Orange ... Banana .... Pear ... Banana .... Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... Orange ... Pear ... Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
I have seen this, and I never did figure out what was wrong. In my case, as
in yours, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the XE fields. I ended up just unlinking the index and fixing it manually after editing was complete, but I suspect that probably the document was corrupt. If that is the case with yours, you may be able to repair it using Word's built-in Repair option or the instructions at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Warren Postm4" wrote in message ... I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... Orange ... Banana .... Pear ... Banana .... Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... Orange ... Pear ... Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
I have seen this, and I never did figure out what was wrong. In my case, as
in yours, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the XE fields. I ended up just unlinking the index and fixing it manually after editing was complete, but I suspect that probably the document was corrupt. If that is the case with yours, you may be able to repair it using Word's built-in Repair option or the instructions at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Warren Postm4" wrote in message ... I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... Orange ... Banana .... Pear ... Banana .... Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... Orange ... Pear ... Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
Be sure the Bananas are _absolutely identical -- no spaces, no
diacritics, maybe even no formatting differences. Try copying one of the XE fields and replacing all the others with it, then typing the second-level items again. On Feb 5, 12:06*pm, Warren Postm4 wrote: I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... * * *Orange ... Banana .... * * Pear ... Banana .... * * Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... * * Orange ... * * Pear ... * * Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" *and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. *I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. *In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. * There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. * Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. *Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
Be sure the Bananas are _absolutely identical -- no spaces, no
diacritics, maybe even no formatting differences. Try copying one of the XE fields and replacing all the others with it, then typing the second-level items again. On Feb 5, 12:06*pm, Warren Postm4 wrote: I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... * * *Orange ... Banana .... * * Pear ... Banana .... * * Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... * * Orange ... * * Pear ... * * Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" *and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. *I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. *In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. * There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. * Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. *Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
I can attest, though, that sometimes you can do all of those things and
still have the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Be sure the Bananas are _absolutely identical -- no spaces, no diacritics, maybe even no formatting differences. Try copying one of the XE fields and replacing all the others with it, then typing the second-level items again. On Feb 5, 12:06 pm, Warren Postm4 wrote: I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... Orange ... Banana .... Pear ... Banana .... Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... Orange ... Pear ... Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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Microsoft Word 2003 - Two tier index repeates same top tier.
I can attest, though, that sometimes you can do all of those things and
still have the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Be sure the Bananas are _absolutely identical -- no spaces, no diacritics, maybe even no formatting differences. Try copying one of the XE fields and replacing all the others with it, then typing the second-level items again. On Feb 5, 12:06 pm, Warren Postm4 wrote: I have an auto-generated index, and here is a sample of how it looks: Banana .... Orange ... Banana .... Pear ... Banana .... Steve.... I would like only one top level index heading: Banana .... Orange ... Pear ... Steve ... I would have thought that Word would do this automatically. I have carefully checked the XE entries, and the typing of "Banana:Orange" and "Banana:Steve" both use the same first entry (Banana). But they appear three times in the index, each with one item underneath, instead of with one combined top level heading, and the three entries underneath it. I opened it up in Office 2010 Word beta to see if it works better here, and it does the same thing. I regenerated a new Index field into the document, and it does it there too. I am stumped. I even did a search-replace with Banana and replaced it with Apple, and it found and replaced all text and XE entries, but my manual (which is not about fruit, but I figured I wouldn't bore you all with technical terms that have nothing to do with my question) index is totally full of duplicates like this. In other places, I have cases where Word is working as expected. There is a space character in between two words in all cases where it isn't working, and yet I know it's not some other weird unicode character that looks like a space. I even took the spaces out and changed them to dash (-) characters, and I get the same problem. Then I changed them to a single letter (x) and it still happens. Word is trying to make me lose all my remaining hair follicles, I think. |
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